Elixir: Creative Commemoration
- Event Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
- Time: 6:30 pm (CDT)
- Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
The AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorates lives lost to HIV/AIDS related diseases. People around the country, including from Central Illinois, sent in quilt panels to remember friends, family, acquaintances, and strangers. These panels memorialize lives cut short and the broken hearts left behind. If you could create a quilt panel to commemorate the life of someone you deeply cared for, how would it look? What colors would you use? What message would you include?
Join Spurlock Museum gallery guides for a brief exhibit tour of Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois. After the tour, create a quilt square to honor your lost loved one.
The exhibit tour begins at 6:30 pm followed by a creating making activity.
About the Series
Elixirs are facilitated activities that promote wellness and restoration, activate curiosity, and expand use of the senses to connect us with the world around us, and more importantly, to connect us with ourselves. When you need respite from the chaos and stress of life, an elixir is your cure.
Contact
For further information on this event, contact Katya Reno at katyar@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 244-8483
All participants are welcome. To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact Brian Cudiamat at cudiamat@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 244-5586.